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1. Strange Habits

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1974: Miss Ryland is convinced Flaxborough is home to white slave trafficking so tips off Inspector Purbright. Stars John Rowe.

Is someone white-slaving nuns in Flaxborough?

After a tip-off from an intercepted telegram, Inspector Purbright carefully picks his way through another case...

Colin Watson's gripping serial about vice and violence stirring beneath the surface of a peaceful market town.

John Rowe stars as Inspector Walter Purbright.

Dramatised in six parts by Christopher Denys.

Inspector Purbright ..... John Rowe
Sergeant Love ..... Paul Downing
Mrs Hatch ..... Patricia Wilcock
Baxter ..... Peter Rylands
Mrs Spain ..... Judith Davies
Lucy Teatime ..... Ann Rye
Councillor Crispin ..... Finetime Fontayne
Anus ..... Daniel Coll
Hatch ..... Harry Kirkham
Chubb ..... Geoffrey Banks
Tudor ..... David Fleeshman

Director: Tony Cliff

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1993.

30 minutes

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